A Melbourne catering company which was shut down in February after being linked a listeria scare is taking legal action to appeal against the closure.It is appealing against the closure order imposed by the DHHSThe I Cook Foods company in Dandenong South was closed by the Department of Health and Human Services following the death of an elderly woman in Knox Private Hospital, in Melbourne's east, in early February, which was linked to listeriosis.
The company, which supplied food to Meals on Wheels, aged care facilities and a number of hospitals in Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs was shut down after being examined by health inspectors for the Dandenong City Council. The company's lawyer, David Brett, said action was being launched in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to overturn the closure order.
"We're going to court because we say that when our client's food premises were shut down on the 22nd of February, that they were shut down without any proper evidence to indicate that our client's products or processes were in any way related to the issues surrounding the death of the unfortunate woman in the hospital," he said.